Author Topic: No sale at istock for 1 week??? (Read 7199 times)

Peiling · « **on:** May 30, 2007, 08:22 »

I am a bit taken aback. This is the first time it has happened. Just wondering if any of you have this? I have not had a single sale for a week??

I hope that I get some sales today and from this mail onwards...anyone experiencing this??

CJPhoto · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2007, 08:25 »

I am at about 1/2 of last month.

sharply_done · « **Reply #2 on:** May 30, 2007, 08:30 »

Wow, that's disastrous.

I hope things pick up for you ... promptly!

Peiling · « **Reply #3 on:** May 30, 2007, 08:38 »

i just got one download

Not sure where that came from. Maybe I should come here and make a post when this happends and I will the downloads come...hehehe

dbvirago · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2007, 09:15 »

They've been steady for me. I'm slightly up from last month. Had several yesterday.

FeaturePics on the other hand.....

epixx · « **Reply #5 on:** May 30, 2007, 09:23 »

IS is up and down like a slow elevator. I've never understood what makes it move. April, which was bad on all other sites, was a record month for me at IS, but now it's down again, while most of the others are going up.

CJPhoto · « **Reply #6 on:** May 30, 2007, 09:45 »

Quote from: epixx on May 30, 2007, 09:23

IS is up and down like a slow elevator. I've never understood what makes it move. April, which was bad on all other sites, was a record month for me at IS, but now it's down again, while most of the others are going up.

Agree. I am not concerned and I sure next month will be up again.

sharpshot · « **Reply #7 on:** May 30, 2007, 09:49 »

I had a nice increase in sales every month until April, then my sales fell 30%. This month is clambering back up to February levels. This is a bit disappointing, considering I have been adding the max uploads every week.

HughStoneIan · « **Reply #8 on:** May 30, 2007, 10:03 »

This past week was very slow for me, but I did get downloads. However, where before I had been getting regular sales on the weekends, now May has brought me mostly zero weekends

. But I've still been able to make almost my monthly average. April was my BME by a very small margin. From the sounds of everyone's results, I think IS have definitely been tweaking the search engine.

Pixart · « **Reply #9 on:** May 30, 2007, 17:12 »

Hey Sharply. I hardly ever go to the actual SS site, but your most pop airplane was there on the welcome page a minute ago - big and bold (and with no watermark!). A pretty darned impressive photo. Hopefully good for a couple of downloads if it's the first thing they see!

Edit: Sorry gang, I thought this was a shutterstock thread. Oh well.

litifeta · « **Reply #10 on:** May 30, 2007, 17:25 »

I just checked my account and got my first ever payout. $104 yipppeee.

le_cyclope · « **Reply #11 on:** May 30, 2007, 17:51 »

iStock is doing fine for me this month but all the others are down...

By the way, I just got my first flames on iStock today!!!

Feels good!

Claude

sharply_done · « **Reply #12 on:** May 30, 2007, 22:54 »

Quote from: Pixart on May 30, 2007, 17:12

Hey Sharply. I hardly ever go to the actual SS site, but your most pop airplane was there on the welcome page a minute ago - big and bold (and with no watermark!). A pretty darned impressive photo. Hopefully good for a couple of downloads if it's the first thing they see!

Edit: Sorry gang, I thought this was a shutterstock thread. Oh well.

Thanks for noticing, Pixart!

They rotate the top 50 sellers of the week through that slot. My shot has been there for about a week or so ... the in-your-face placement sure helps with sales.

I'd sure love to get some free publicity like that on IS!

dbvirago · « **Reply #13 on:** May 31, 2007, 07:30 »

OK, now i'm on board. I was up for the month, but now it's been over a week for a sale or a view. Haven't gone this long without a sale since I started there in July, including Christmas/New Year.

a.k.a.-tom · « **Reply #14 on:** June 01, 2007, 17:13 »

All included, sales were down for me in May. However, nice slow build on IS with a very small 'folio, DT posted a nice increase over previous months. What killed me in May were my SS sales...way down. Of course, I only uploaded to SS once in May, might be why. And a nice surprise, I've actually sold a few on LO? Hope it's a pattern. 8)tom

marcopolo · « **Reply #15 on:** June 01, 2007, 23:06 »

May was up for me, mostly on vector file sales, however, this last week has been slow like others had mentioned and today I had my WDE, well, my worst non-holiday weekday ever since 2005. I had about half of the sales I had on memorial day, which is about a third of the sales on an average day I had the week before, so about 1/6th my normal sales day for May, and about 10% a normal early December sales day. I hope today is a fluke and not a trend, and I like to try to keep a positive attitude, but everytime I had a radical sales drop at Istock it really was the worst possible scenario, ended up being the trend and not a fluke. Basically if this trend keeps up Istock will be making about as much as Canstock does for me.

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Author Topic: No sale at istock for 1 week??? (Read 7199 times)

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